And thus it begins - AWARDS SEASON!

[tzikeh]

Once the National Board of Review announces its 2006 film winners, it's the official beginning of Crazy-Ass Awards Season.


NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW

Best Film
Letters From Iwo Jima

Top Ten Films
Letters From Iwo Jima, (and, in alphabetical order) Babel, Blood Diamond, The Departed, The Devil Wears Prada, Flags Of Our Fathers, The History Boys, Little Miss Sunshine, Notes On A Scandal, The Painted Veil

Best Foreign Film
Volver

Top Five Foreign Films
Volver, (and, in alphabetical order) Curse Of The Golden Flower, Days Of Glory, Pan's Labyrinth, Water

Top Five Documentaries
An Inconvenient Truth, (and, in alphabetical order) 51 Birch Street, Iraq In Fragments, Shut Up & Sing, Wordplay

Top Independent Films
(in alphabetical order) Akeelah And The Bee, Bobby, Catch A Fire, Copying Beethoven, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, Half Nelson, The Illusionist, Lonesome Jim, Sherrybaby, 10 Items Or Less, Thank You For Smoking

Best Actor
Forest Whitaker, The Last King Of Scotland

Best Actress
Helen Mirren, The Queen

Best Supporting Actor
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond

Best Supporting Actress
Catherine O'Hara, For Your Consideration

Best Acting By An Ensemble
The Departed

Breakthrough Performance - Male
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson

Breakthrough Performance - Female
(2) Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls and Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Directorial Debut
Jason Reitman, Thank You For Smoking

Best Adapted Screenplay
Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil

Best Original Screenplay
Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction

Best Documentary
An Inconvenient Truth

Best Animated Feature
Cars

Career Achievement Award
Eli Wallach

Billy Wilder Award For Excellence In Directing
Jonathan Demme

William K. Everson Award For Film History
Donald Krim

Career Achievement in Producing
Irwin Winkler

The Bvlgari Award for NBR Freedom of Expression
Water and World Trade Center


LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS

BEST PICTURE"Letters from Iwo Jima"
Runner Up: "The Queen."

DIRECTOR: Paul Greengrass, "United 93"
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood, "Flags of our Fathers", "Letters from Iwo Jima"

ACTRESS: Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Penelope Cruz, "Volver"

ACTOR: Tie – Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat" & Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"

SCREENPLAY: "The Queen" by Peter Morgan
Runner-up: "Little Miss Sunshine" by Michael Arndt

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Luminita Gheorghiu, "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu"
Runner-up: Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"

SUPPORTING ACTOR: Michael Sheen, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Sergi Ló:pez, "Pan’s Labyrinth"

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "The Lives of Others" directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Runner-up: "Volver" directed by Pedro Almodóvar

DOCUMENTARY/NON-FICTION FILM: "An Inconvenient Truth" directed by Davis Guggenheim
Runner-up: "Darwin’s Nightmare" directed by Hubert Sauper

PRODUCTION DESIGN: Eugenio Caballero, "Pan’s Labyrinth"
Runner-up: Jim Clay, Veronica Falzon & Geoffrey Kirkland, "Children of Men"

ANIMATION: "Happy Feet" (George Miller)
Runner-up: "Cars" (John Lasseter, Joe Ranft)

MUSIC: Alexandre Desplat, "The Painted Veil" and "The Queen"
Runner-up: Thomas Newman, "The Good German" and "Little Children"

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Children of Men"
Runner-up: Tom Stern, "Flags of our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima"

NEW GENERATION:
Michael Arndt (screenwriter), Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (co-directors) – "Little Miss Sunshine"

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT: Robert Mulligan (previously announced)

INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL:
"Old Joy" directed by Kelly Reichardt & "In Between Days" directed by So Yong Kim

SPECIAL CITATIONS:
To Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 film "Army of Shadows" upon the occasion of its long-overdue U.S. release.

To Jonas Mekas for his contributions to American film culture as filmmaker, critic and co-founder of Anthology Film Archives.


NEW YORK FILM CRITICS

Best Picture
United 93

Best Actor
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Best Actress
Helen Mirren, The Queen

Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Foreign Film
Army of Shadows

Best Screenplay
Peter Morgan, The Queen

Best Supporting Actor
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

Best Cinematographer
Guillermo Navarro, Pan's Labyrinth

Best Non-Fiction Film
Deliver Us From Evil

Best First Film
Ryan Fleck, Half Nelson

Best Animated Film
Happy Feet

Today the Golden Globe nominations were announced, and I'm flat-out stealing this coding from yahtzee63.


GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS

TELEVISION

TV Series, Drama
24, Big Love, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Lost

TV Series, Comedy
Desperate Housewives, Entourage, The Office, Ugly Betty, Weeds

Lead Actor, TV Drama
Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy), Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Hugh Laurie (House), Bill Paxton (Big Love), Kiefer Sutherland (24)

Lead Actress, TV Drama
Patricia Arquette (Medium), Edie Falco (The Sopranos), Evangeline Lilly (Lost), Ellen Pompeo (Grey's), Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)

Lead Actor, TV Comedy/Musical
Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Zach Braff (Scrubs), Steve Carell (The Office), Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl), Tony Shalhoub (Monk)

Lead Actress, TV Comedy/Musical
Marcia Cross (Housewives), TV Guide cover girl America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), Felicity Huffman (Housewives), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (The New Avdentures of Old Christine), Mary-Louis Parker (Weeds)

Best Actor, Miniseries or TV-Movie
André Braugher (Thief), Robert Duvall (Broken Trail), Michael Ealy (Sleeper Cell: American Terror), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Tsunami, the Aftermath), Ben Kingsley (Mrs. Harris), Bill Nighy (Gideon's Daughter), Matthew Perry (The Ron Clark Story)

Best Actress, Miniseries or TV-Movie
Gillian Anderson (Bleak House), Annette Bening (Mrs. Harris), Helen Mirren (Elizabeth I), Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect: The Final Act), Sophie Okonedo (Tsunami)

Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV-Movie
Thomas Haden Church (Broken Trail), Jeremy Irons (Elizabeth I), Justin Kirk (Weeds), Masi Oka (Heroes), Jeremy Piven (Entourage)

Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV-Movie
Emily Blunt (Gideon's Daughter), Toni Collette (Tsunami), Katherine Heigl (Grey's Anatomy), Sarah Paulson (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip), Elizabeth Perkins (Weeds)

Best Miniseries or TV-Movie
Bleak House, Broken Trail, Elizabeth I, Mrs. Harris, Prime Suspect: The Final Act

MOVIES

Best Drama
Babel, Bobby, Little Children, The Queen, The Departed

Best Comedy/Musical
Borat, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Little Miss Sunshine, Thank You for Smoking

Best Director
Clint Eastwood (two nominations, for Flags of our Fathers and another Letters from Iwo Jima,) Stephen Frears (The Queen), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel), Martin Scorsese (The Departed)

Lead Actor, Drama
Leonardo DiCaprio (two nominations, for The Departed and Blood Diamond), Peter O'Toole (Venus), Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)

Lead Actress, Drama
Penelope Cruz (Volver), Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Sherrybaby), Helen Mirren (The Queen), Kate Winslet (Little Children)

Lead Actor, Comedy
Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat), Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest), Aaron Eckhart (Thank You for Smoking), Will Ferrell (Stranger than Fiction), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Kinky Boots)

Lead Actress, Comedy
Annette Bening (Running with Scissors), Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine), Beyonce Knowles (Dreamgirls), Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada), Renée Zellweger (Miss Potter)

Supporting Actor
Ben Affleck (Hollywoodland), Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls), Jack Nicholson (The Departed), Brad Pitt (Babel), Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)

Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza (Babel), Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal), Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), Kikuchi Rinko (Babel)

Screenplay
Babel, Little Children, Notes on a Scandal, The Departed, The Queen

Original Score
The Painted Veil, The Fountain, Babel, Nomad, The Da Vinci Code

Original Song
"A Father's Way" (The Pursuit of Happyness), "Listen" (Dreamgirls), "Never Gonna Break My Faith" (Bobby), "The Song of the Heart" (Happy Feet), "Try Not to Remember" (Home of the Brave)

Foreign Language Film
Apocalypto (USA), Letters from Iwo Jima (USA/Japan), The Lives of Others (Germany), Pan's Labyrinth (Mexico), Volver (Spain)

Animated Film
Cars, Happy Feet, Monster House

I have to agree with her that 1) Big yay for Masi Oka from Heroes, but 2) the annual WTF for the Golden Globe categories insanity when this means he's up against Jeremy Irons for Elizabeth I.

Still, my addiction to awards' shows lists continues unabated.

Comments

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

I SO want him to get the Oscar this time; The Departed is his best film since Goodfellas, I think, and he really should have won for *that*. Sigh. The Departed is very awesome, but I fear the double-barrel of Clint Eastwood and WWII. Sigh.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Kevin Costner wins Best Director for Dances With Wolves over Martin Scorsese for Goodfellas is probably #1 on the Great Academy Fuck-Ups of All Time List.

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

I have a larger personal issue with "Braveheart" over "Apollo 13," but artistically the Scorcese loss is certainly more important. I just adore "Apollo 13." {g}

[greywingnut.livejournal.com]

I'm totally with you on Apollo 13. It's the only movie I've ever immediately had to see again after watching the first time. And anytime it pops up on Bravo, I'm stuck for the duration.

[greywingnut.livejournal.com]

Gods, I've barely seen anything at the movie theater this year. I feel so lame.

[grace-om.livejournal.com]

Several of those films I want to see, but haven't gotten to yet. "The Queen" and "Last King of Scotland" are high on the list... Saw the trailers for the latter and thought, "Oooohhh! An oscar for Forest Whittaker!"

Helen Mirren was awesome as QEI, but she killed me ded in that recent installment of "Prime Suspect".